Unzipping DNA: a hypothesis on correlation during replication

Bhattacharjee, Somendra M. (2002) Unzipping DNA: a hypothesis on correlation during replication Indian Journal of Physics, 76 (1). pp. 69-73. ISSN 0019-5480

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Official URL: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2000cond.mat.10132B

Abstract

Based on the result of an unzipping phase transition by a force in a model of DNA, we hypothesize that the DnaA-type proteins act as a pulling agent with a force slightly less than the critical force for unzipping. The dynamic (space-time) correlation of unzipping then drives the subsequent events of replication. In such a correlation driven scenario, there is no need of a replisome as a structural unit and this elusive replisome may not exist at all.

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